Paradoxvoid

Paradoxvoid , 14 hours ago

You’ve got to give Microsoft credit for their dedication to backwards compatibility.

Paradoxvoid , 9 days ago

I expect people have moved onto other and better games, and never bothered to update their review from years ago - I definitely fall into that category.

Paradoxvoid , 23 days ago

It’s funny how when this was released, people were massively up in arms since it was ‘only cosmetic’ - then we saw what these companies would do with PvP games and P2W microtransactions, so people had to turn around and beg for them to return to being purely cosmetic additions…

Paradoxvoid , 1 month ago

Too bad, you get a battlepass instead!

Paradoxvoid , 1 month ago

Arkham Knight is decent except for the batmobile sections - as others have already mentioned.

I’d still argue it’s better than Origins though. From memory, memorising all the different toolbelt skills isn’t really necessary - you can definitely get through the game by just abusing jumps, cloak and counters - some special enemies might need a specific ability to make vulnerable, but the game normally warns you the first time you fight them, so I don’t think it ever feels too overwhelming - it just feels like a lot if you run through it very quickly.

Paradoxvoid , 1 month ago

Have to disagree with you on echoes - I loved the game, but IMO it was much easier than Prime 1 - the most difficult boss was the probably the boost guardian midway through rather than any of the endgame bosses. The ammo system made the standard power beam too centralising which was boring, and the dark world damage just served to slow the player down, since the light fields regenerated your health.

Paradoxvoid , 2 months ago

No one’s suggested it yet, so I’ll say Fire Emblem: Three Houses - lots of gameplay hours, especially if you want to go through each of the four storylines, albeit can be a bit repetitive getting to that point.

Paradoxvoid , 2 months ago

Those are so easily commensurable! It’s 1 and 59/64 obv.

I legit can’t tell if this is sarcasm.

Paradoxvoid , 2 months ago

You do you, but if you’re reverting to binary to explain how simple it is to add values together, I think you’ve made a wrong turn somewhere.

Paradoxvoid , 3 months ago

Here’s another example where trying to chase the live-service money train has just ended up with a subpar product that people abandon or avoid almost instantly.

Unfortunately I suspect the wrong lessons will be taken away from this as well - e.g. the console/PC gaming market is too fickle, etc.

Paradoxvoid , 3 months ago

With GOG, you could theoretically download the offline installer, give that to someone else and then ask GOG support to remove BG3 from your account, and be fully abiding with the EULA conditions.

Paradoxvoid , 3 months ago

Lazy Web devs who took the ‘mobile first’ mantra to mean ‘mobile only’ 🙄

Paradoxvoid , 4 months ago

Holy shit, it’s actually impressive to tank that hard - not cresting more than 1000 concurrent players in over a month, and hasn’t been able to beat 5000 since November… I know people love throwing the ‘dead game’ meme around prematurely, but if this isn’t dead yet, it’s definitely got one foot in the grave.

Paradoxvoid , 4 months ago

But if it gets to the point where Ubisoft goes and every studio starts making their own, I don’t think that will work if they don’t have the game catalogue to support it, that would mean Ubisoft could just start churning out horrible games to build their stupid catalogue.

I feel like we’re starting to see a rerun of the streaming service wars - if this takes off across the industry I can definitely see people going back to piracy. I don’t want game pass, ubisoft+, Blizzard Prime, Nintendo Online Super Premium Expansion Pass or whatever stupid names these companies come up with just to play a few games that I’m interested in, just because they’re spread across different publishers.

Paradoxvoid , 6 months ago

Americans merely adopted the nonsensical measurements. The Brits were born to them.

Paradoxvoid , 6 months ago

Ok but who actually doesn’t know what a magazine is

Kbin devs, apparently.

Paradoxvoid , 7 months ago

Well Google has recently been forcing through its awful Web Environment Integrity proposal so…

Paradoxvoid , 7 months ago

Android Debug Bridge - it’s a tool you can use to access parts of Android you don’t normally have access to directly on the phone.

Paradoxvoid , 7 months ago

It’s not the worst strategy (and is actually referred to as ‘peppering’ your password)… but if your primary use-case is websites and mobile apps, using a password manager like Bitwarden and randomly generated strong passwords is still a better strategy (and probably faster too, since you don’t need to type it out manually anymore, and/or remember which flex you used when creating your ‘peppered’ password).

This is a good approach if you have to login to services that aren’t via a web browser though - e.g. Remote desktops etc.

Paradoxvoid , 8 months ago

America really is an amazing country. I’ve never even heard of about half of this tier list.

Paradoxvoid , 8 months ago

Like legit, some of these comments are utterly deranged. YouTube has ZERO competition in the consumer) mass market consumer space, everyone else is a niche player, and it’s debatable whether YouTube even turns a profit despite that.

Paradoxvoid , 8 months ago

Revenue, sure - I don’t believe Google shares profit numbers for Youtube separately to the rest of the portfolio. I could be misinformed though.

Paradoxvoid , 8 months ago

Again, revenue. They report revenue because it’s a nice big number, but it’s different to profit (which is why a lot of people suspect they don’t make much actual money, if any).

Paradoxvoid , 8 months ago

I don’t think broad brushstrokes are helpful here - regular people can be real assholes, and we need to balance a public servant’s individual right to privacy with the public’s right to transparency.

Some jobs such as Police Officers, I have no qualms with filming while they’re in uniform or otherwise on-the-job. But I can also see how a blanket approval could backfire, e.g. some aggrieved person decides to stalk some poor guy who’s only job is to center divs on some government website, just because they find out he’s a government worker.

Paradoxvoid , 8 months ago

Oof https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%BC%AA

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/e76c786b-f75e-403a-805d-e28016a72c00.png

Paradoxvoid , 8 months ago

I had this exact fight with my team several months ago, and lost to popular opinion since the rest of my team are either zoomers or indifferent.

Paradoxvoid , 8 months ago

Wait… People are calling the emergency phone line after getting scammed? Wonder if that’s just Zoomers being too dumb to avoid scams but not dumb enough to think an emergency phone call will help.

Paradoxvoid , 9 months ago

Overwatch(2) - !overwatch2

Paradoxvoid , 9 months ago

Since you’re posting to a lemmy instance (beehaw), you should probably use the lemmy style - i.e. !community - I don’t think there’s any need to create an explicit link since I think most UIs will format it for you.

Paradoxvoid , 9 months ago

I think Lemmy uses ! for instances because @ is used for users - e.g. I expect that @floppy will automatically link to your profile on your instance (and link to your profile on any other viewer’s instance - e.g. for me it should link to an aussie.zone URL).

It’s probably a design decision to differentiate communities from users.

Paradoxvoid , 9 months ago

If you look at the source between your post and the OP of this chain, you can see that they haven’t got any special link formatting, but the links will all work correctly for any lemmy user no matter their instance - not sure if kbin handles it correctly.

e.g. [!destroy_my_game](https://programming.dev/c/destroy_my_game) vs [email protected]

I suspect it’s just a convenience thing, since a number of your links point to kbin.cafe search results.

Paradoxvoid , 9 months ago

Tbh it sounds more and more like it’s a kbin interaction problem rather than anything you’re doing…

Not sure if there’s any way for you to resolve it other than getting a Beehaw mod to update it for you.

Paradoxvoid , 9 months ago

I think you’re right and it’s frontend-specific - I’m using Alexandrite and it shows perfectly, but I just checked the default Lemmy UI and it doesn’t handle it properly either.

Paradoxvoid , 9 months ago

Can confirm that the first doesn’t work on Alexandrite, but the second works as expected.

Paradoxvoid , 9 months ago

If we want authors to survive, we’ve got to stop assuming that authors’ intellectual labour is a public commodity.

The irony being that this is exactly what copyright was originally intended to facilitate - authors creating works to become public domain within a relatively short period of time.

Paradoxvoid , 9 months ago

I really wish they didn’t have to kill third party integration with smart speakers for this. Google bait and switch at its finest.

Paradoxvoid , 9 months ago

You could use Google-assistant smart speakers to add things to specific non-Keep shopping lists - e.g. Any.Do and Bring are two that spring to mind. Google killed this integration a few months back to force users into using Keep if they wanted to retain this functionality.

Paradoxvoid , 9 months ago

The far cheaper Galaxy Tab A series is a near equivalent competitor for where Google is positioning its tablet (an at-home media device, rather than a highly-performant professional device), and for a lot of people, trading the considerably lower price for no docking station and some older specs is worthwhile.

Google need to either make the docking capability a lot more appealing, or reduce the price significantly because at the moment it sits squarely in the home entertainment sphere, but with a price tag creeping up to match professional-tier devices - why would someone pay the premium for what is effectively an ebook and Youtube device?

Paradoxvoid , 10 months ago

Agreed - they really just need to roll the ‘Profile Switcher for Firefox’ extension into base functionality - and this would have the benefit of not requiring an additional install to work.

Paradoxvoid , 10 months ago

Blizzard aren’t worth going out of your way to defend with a review, but the game is fun enough that people playing it are probably doing just that - playing the game.

For my part, my friend group have played pretty regularly since OW1 released, and continue to do so. The game has its problems but they’re no more egregious than the ones in games like Apex or PUBG, and certainly not bad enough to put it in the same league as all the hentai crypto mining asset-flips littering Steam these days.

Paradoxvoid , 10 months ago

I think this is technically a loop.

Paradoxvoid , 10 months ago

Honestly, it’s so strange this never comes up - yes there are ads but a man’s gotta eat. The ads aren’t particularly intrusive so the free version is a fine sacrifice for those of us who are happy enough with the base functionality of sync and can deal with the minor annoyance of an occasional ad.

I’d prefer to purchase the ad-free version, but the pricing is a bit excessive for me right now - I can wait it out until there’s a sale or other discount in the meantime.

If that’s a dealbreaker, all the other Lemmy clients are available to use instead - I’ve used them all and they’re all excellent.

Paradoxvoid , 10 months ago

The people who this really affected - third-party app users, people affected by the poor accessibility of the regular app/site and the anti- ‘hail corporate’ types have already migrated or are otherwise disengaged with Reddit, leaving just the bootlickers.

Paradoxvoid , 10 months ago

The major point is not so much whether your browser could block ads - your point regarding the browser ultimately having to render each element is true. The problem is that if the web server gets a request from an unattested browser (such as an old version, or one that has an ad blocker installed), it will refuse to serve any content, not just ads.

Regular people will inevitably get frustrated and we end up in scenarios like “<x browser>is bad, it doesn’t work with <y site>” because of this proposal, and more and more people end up switching until you have to use a compliant (Chromium-based) browser to do anything at all on the internet, and Google’s strangehold on web standards solidifies even further.

Paradoxvoid , 10 months ago

And that’s not even getting into how banks worldwide have been cutting down on staff numbers for years, and directing people to just their apps instead.

Paradoxvoid , 10 months ago

As much as we can (and should) lambast Facebook/Meta’s C-Suite for terrible decisions, their engineers are generally pretty legit.

Paradoxvoid , 10 months ago

Also no Google connectivity

I wish people would see this as a feature, not a drawback.